Anita And Tiote Start – Ben Arfa On Bench

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

12:32pm Sunday, December 29th, 2013

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Vurnon Anita has retained his place even though Cheick Tiote returns to the line-up, after a one match suspension against Stoke City, and Ben Arfa finds himself on the bench after a Man of the Match performance on Thursday.

Cheick Tiote – returns to the side todayIt looks like Newcastle will play in a 4-3-3 formation, with the middle line of Vurnon Anita, Cheick Tiote and Yohan Cabaye and a front three of Frenchmen Moussa Sissoko, Loic Remy and Yoan Gouffran.

Sammy Ameobi is on the bench and Steven Taylor again finds himself not included in the match day squad of 18.

For Arsenal Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud start, but no sign of German star Mesut Ozil.

This is going to be a tough game for Newcastle, and we’ll have to come out of the blocks like a steam train at the start of this game – and then keep it up.

Afternoon all and come on the toon Kets sorry mate but your out of your f@ckin mind son if ya think santon is the best left back in the pl, Give me baines-shaw-cole-azpilicueta ect any day of the week over santon

Sage/Lilo I don’t mind Santoon, the one thing I’ve noticed with him is he plays better when not alongside colo, i think they both wander too much and it exposes each other’s weaknesses However the lad has played nearly every game since signing, I personally think he needs taking out the lime light for a couple of weeks (ala Tiote HBA Cisse Cabaye ) give him rest, let MYM/Haidara/Dummett (although for me MYM should be ahead of colo ) battle it out and I guarantee santon will improve

Personally feel pardew can see this as well as I can’t see any other reason he’s subbed him the last 3-4 games

hadn’t seen the arsenal team til after i wrote that post, whoever is in the Arsenal midfield it hardly matters, Wengers teams always like 2 keep the ball and pass it about in midfield, so packing out the midfield area is def the rite option imo

What is santon now, 22/23? He has plenty of time to learn to be more disciplined. Ideally he should do that now but he has the skill set just needs to start using it to his full potential. I’ve got no problem with him either and think a fee weeks out night make him realise what he needs to do.

And never thought about it before but I think your right that’s he’s better with mbiwa next to him. I think colo may well be off in the summer anyway so we may see mbiwa stepping into the CB role full time then.

thing is though is that Walcott is extremely fast but is weak in strength.

out of our 3 players who can play LB Santon, Haidara & Dummet they are all basically have the same speed but Santon is stronger amongst the 3 which could if used to there ability cause Walcott some concern

Gouffy to carry on his goal scoring exploits at sjp today, Which brings me in turn to the gutti situation. Gutti was a grafter but only kept his place because we had no depth. Now we have gouffy who has proved his worth this season beyond doubt

Tads, I have no problem with Santon, he isn’t a bad full back, but he is lacking defensively. So was Ashley Cole for the first few years of his career, so I don’t see it as a problem, as long as he works on it.

For me, having Anita in the midfield gives both full backs a bit of cover as he is an intelligent player and drops in to cover very well. I woud have preferred MYM there today to combat Walcott, but I would normally be fine with Santon playing

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